The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.
www.project2025.observer/en
I think they will give out recommendations, as in semi-covered ads for the company that paid the most for a medicine to be named. That horse-tranquilizer? They made millions. Sales of bleech? Probably sold a lot more too. But your point on hunting down women who had an abortion? Most certainly true.
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
Exactly right.
What’s the point of funding an agency that will do more harm than good? I see none.
That is strong evidence that you are a mentally healthy person.
My head hurts so much
Abortion is the emotional issue. School vouchers are the racism issue. Bring slavery back is a REALITY. Break the government. Go back to the “Moral Majority” Jerry Falwell, Bob Jones, and Paul Weyrich. Weyrich’s manifesto was to break the entire US government.
It's not just about abortion. They view birth control the same way. They've been talking about getting rid of birth control for decades.
Yep, they are very worried about the declining birth rate, especially among people they "like".
It's more broad than just the declining birthrate. The misogyny in that world is deep and wide. Keeping women, even those who can't have kids, in their place is a main occupation.
When they talk about abortion they also mean birth control yeah
They are out for mental health meds too.
the witch trials are coming
Yes indeed, if they have to kill 50,000,000 in a pandemic, they will do it for life.
"CDC's abortion surveillance is inadequate". Surveillance.
The word has a different meaning in medicine/health. It means monitoring/tracking, like you do with children's mental/physical development, to make sure it's progressing as it should. That said, abortion is surveilled plenty already.
I guarantee you they don’t mean it in those terms.
There have always been abortions and always will be abortions. When they're legal, the woman can safely have a relatively simple procedure and is probably fairly safe. When they're illegal, the woman has a greater chance of negative health impacts. 2025 wants women to die or be incubators. Maga?
"Liberal states" have become "sanctuary states for abortion tourism" ??? WTF.
Other than the obvious misogyny, future bad acts against more than pregnant people are carried on the back of reproductive rights litigation.
And trans people.
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(Unfortunately for these sweaty incels, who have never even had a chance to try the rhythm method much less screw it up, abortion is healthcare, and there will always be abortion.)
Sadly, while there will always be abortions, they will not be done safely, but in back alleys and women will die
You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.
Whoops, I meant to add this link bsky.app/profile/luck...
Saw this today and hoping my state joins with others on the West Coast. This is a nightmare. They will also come for trans individuals. Women, transgender, and activists. I’m calling my state officials asap, ty for the reminder.
You have to fight this. You MUST fight this. This is the first fight in 8 months that you, as a person without a law degree, can personally win against the Trump Administration. We still need a bit more critical mass from Democrats. Keep calling. Demand (1) statements and (2) investigative hearings
I see the point you're trying to make but it's not true at all that this is the first fight non-lawyers can win against the regime and it's pretty demoralizing that you don't see the work / wins that other everyday people are achieving.
"This is a fight you can win" - good, encouraging "This is the only fight date you can win" - bad, erasure
sometimes we say words not because we think they're literally true in every case, but because we believe they will have the specific effect of causing other people to do certain things. hope that helps
Well, your words have had the opposite effect on me. Good luck with your thing.
Y’all, public health and aid distribution are servants of the same goal: helping and protecting people. We can move towards that goal through many different paths, but we are all worse off with lateral contempt and the undermining of parallel strategies. Don’t turn against one another.
That's kinda my point tho, right? Like acknowledging other people are also fighting and winning? But I'm sure we'll both wake up tomorrow doing the same things we planned on to help people. I'm not phased here. I'm also not the target audience for phone-your-reps call to actions so it's whatever.
You can’t control other people, only yourself. And you’ve got to lead with love and not take personally the shortcomings or gaps you perceive in others strategy and communication. Erasure is bad, so are purity tests. In the end, we have to be on each others side.
so don't read'em and get to work
personally i thought all of your points were great and the direct "you can" was empowering <3
*Being genuine and not mean* - I sincerely think you said an objectively messed up thing by saying this is the 1st thing ppl can do. It’s invalidating and erasing the work of ppl putting their lives on the line stopping ICE, protesting, etc etc. It’s sad and dismissive, as was your response :(
This could’ve been handled better, considering the leftover characters. Sometimes a good approach is to try to integrate someone’s critique into your response, instead of focusing on defending the act being critiqued. Build on the offered comment, instead of sidestepping it.
Colin is correct. 202-224-3121. Every one of us should be making 5 to 10 calls a day to Senators or representatives you can get through to anyone you want to talk to don’t let up. They’re trying to kill us, wake up.
I called on Friday. One day you think Bondi & Noem are the worst of the worst and then this shit. Glad I'm old.
So, bullet points: * Keep Monarez * Don't let Heritage Foundation usurp Congressional power by totally restructuring and destroying the CDC * Get Kennedy out of office Right?
right!
Emailed the middle one today, both Senators & the Rep. Will hit the other two Sat and Sun, and go protest Mon. Might as well fill the email as the voicemail.
Sorry, what statements and hearings are we demanding?
Just call Congress. I am asking you to do that for the women in your life, if not for public health. You don't even need to find a script or write down what you're going to say before you call. Hell, you don't even need to shave your nasty little beard before you take a video and post it on Bluesky.
*women, trans men, and nonbinary AFAB people But yes.
The first two issues that show up on the 5 Calls app are about this.
And if enough of you do it today, I'll embarrass myself in public. Show me that you called. Go do it right now! The workday is over. bsky.app/profile/coli...
I will yell at my congresswoman for you to *not* publicly embarrass yourself bb
Called both senators and my Rep Then I did the 5 calls scripts....so, they really heard from me Then I emailed both senators. Can you tell I'm pissed?
Great thread! As a Canadian I can’t do much other than boycott all things Amurican, call out here the fascism as I see it and stress-munch pot brownies, popcorn, and poutine!
Great thread. Thanks for posting this.
I called them all yesterday and earlier tonight called them all again. Proof attached.🫡 Did my best not to sound like a deranged person while describing the new CDC head's fucked-up beliefs.
tl;dr: They're going to get rid of the CDC as you know it. They're going to build something new and ghastly that they call the CDC, using its legal powers and data systems, and they are going to use it to hunt down every abortion in America. We are still in the window of time when we can stop that.
Had not realized. Thanks.
Fyi this was something we called out in our analysis of Project 2025. They said saving lives was not worth the impact on churches. kettering.org/project-2025...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
You can easily trace the rise of Christian nationalism back decades. The heritage foundation put a lot of Pressure and support into bush’s presidency, but unlike Trump , Bush pushed back enough to not let it take over but still sought their financial support and voting power .
They won't stop with abortion. They want women home raising kids and nothing else. How many have they fired with the DEI pretense already ?
They reduce abortion because they prefer to see people dying when they are adults.
The Mengele Institute?